is Night Ranger making a comeback?
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 September 2023 17:28 (seven months ago) link
America: "Riverside" at Jason's Deli
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 September 2023 20:16 (seven months ago) link
Today they were playing “wolf tickets” by THE CLICK at the chevron mini mart on telegraph and ashby
― brimstead, Sunday, 15 October 2023 23:30 (six months ago) link
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/08/30/passionate-kisses-the-soundtrack-at-cvs/
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 16 October 2023 12:27 (six months ago) link
WE'VE BEEN SEEN
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 October 2023 12:42 (six months ago) link
Six months ago i heard a song while at a local grocery store, totally knew it but had no idea who did it or what it was called. It had a vaguely late 80s eagles vibe to to it so I went as far as listening to shit off glenn fry and don henely and even goddammn timothy b schmit records but could not place it and it was driving me crazy.
Last weekend at the same grocery store at the exact same checkout I was talking to a coworker I had run into when it came on and I fucking freaked out and busted out my phone while explaining the story to her.
FUCKING POCO. I knew the name but realized I never actually knew what exactly they did but weirdly timothy b schmit used to be the bass player pre-eagles so I wasn't that far off I guess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGEBXL11THc
― joygoat, Monday, 16 October 2023 19:06 (six months ago) link
timothy b schmit used to be the bass player pre-eagles
As did Randy Meisner.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 16 October 2023 19:56 (six months ago) link
Man, I have heard that song 10,000 times and never even once thought about who sang it.
How many more songs must there be like that one? In one ear, out the other.
― pplains, Monday, 16 October 2023 20:26 (six months ago) link
Some real late-era Henley Buckingham.
― pplains, Monday, 16 October 2023 20:27 (six months ago) link
lol that video - it’s hot! We get it!
― calstars, Monday, 16 October 2023 20:33 (six months ago) link
Human League: "Mirror Man" at Whataburger
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 October 2023 11:57 (six months ago) link
Positve K: "I Got a Man" at Whole Foods
― joygoat, Monday, 23 October 2023 18:05 (six months ago) link
WHAT'S YA MAN GOT TO DO WITH ME
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 October 2023 18:07 (six months ago) link
That's the original line-up of Poco too but it's a long long way from "Pickin' Up the Pieces". Richie Furay looks like he's standing at the back trying not to be seen.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 23 October 2023 18:15 (six months ago) link
Xp lol
― calstars, Monday, 23 October 2023 18:17 (six months ago) link
love that Poco song, had never heard it before
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 23 October 2023 23:25 (six months ago) link
Richard Marx produced and co-wrote one of those Poco tracks.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 October 2023 23:33 (six months ago) link
Peter Murphy: "Cuts You Up" at Kroger
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 November 2023 04:49 (five months ago) link
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
Had no idea who did this song but have heard it many times.
― Bee OK, Friday, 10 November 2023 21:52 (five months ago) link
@Vons
― Bee OK, Friday, 10 November 2023 21:53 (five months ago) link
If we're doing hiding-in-plain-sight classics heard at Vons – for me it was ELO's "Livin' Thing" (the other night)... I had never really focused on the song (beyond knowing it from "Boogie Nights," and hearing it here and there), but went home and really listened to it... goddamn!
― Phair · Jagger/Richards · Carl Perkins (morrisp), Friday, 10 November 2023 22:59 (five months ago) link
In my dreams I’m walking in slow motion down an endless CVS aisle with a Michael McDonald supermix on at half speed
― calstars, Friday, 10 November 2023 23:24 (five months ago) link
ELO's "Livin' Thing" is great, in fact I love a lot of their singles. The only album I bought from them was Xanadu but that was really only for Olivia Newton-John. I really need to explore their albums one day as most of their stuff is before my time.
Xpost
― Bee OK, Friday, 10 November 2023 23:56 (five months ago) link
"The Killing Moon" by Echo and the Bunnymen at Fred Meyer.
― visiting, Thursday, 16 November 2023 01:44 (five months ago) link
Sorta relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7r27hWIefk
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 November 2023 18:34 (five months ago) link
"Broken Wings" is, alas, not obscure nor forgotten. It's never gone away.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 November 2023 18:48 (five months ago) link
Tupac giving it new legs helped
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 November 2023 19:06 (five months ago) link
"In a Big Country" at Trader Joe's, is that an obscure song in the US?
― sophie glanced up, looking concerned (Matt #2), Thursday, 23 November 2023 19:43 (five months ago) link
Not really, tho I guess I haven’t heard it in a while…
― This field is required (morrisp), Thursday, 23 November 2023 19:52 (five months ago) link
"Honey" by Robyn at Target
― omar little, Thursday, 23 November 2023 19:57 (five months ago) link
“Big country” is absolutely obscure in the US
― calstars, Thursday, 23 November 2023 21:52 (five months ago) link
Really?
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 November 2023 21:53 (five months ago) link
It hit No. 3 on the Top Rock Tracks chart and No. 17 on the Hot 100… I definitely knew it as a kid, at the time.
― This field is required (morrisp), Thursday, 23 November 2023 21:55 (five months ago) link
(I think the video also got a lot of play, but we didn’t have MTV yet)
― This field is required (morrisp), Thursday, 23 November 2023 21:56 (five months ago) link
Loads of MTV play, plus they performed it live on SNL. It wouldn’t surprise me to hear it now, though it hasn’t had quite the traction of a “Don’t You Want Me” or something of that ilk.
― Josefa, Thursday, 23 November 2023 21:59 (five months ago) link
It’s not obscure in the US
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 22:47 (five months ago) link
not obscure but never played on current 80s radio, in my experience. feel like there has been a great culling of the canon. i don't remember 80s radio of even ten years ago being as limited as it is now.
― slugbuggy, Friday, 24 November 2023 10:01 (five months ago) link
like, i don't expect to hear shock the monkey or switching to glide but they don't play any duran duran other than hungry like the wolf or rio or any culture club other than karma chameleon or any inxs other than need you tonight. under these conditions everything she wants would be considered obscure because i've never heard my local 80s radio station play it so i assume it's dropped out of what anyone under 45 or so would be familiar with.
― slugbuggy, Friday, 24 November 2023 10:08 (five months ago) link
I hear "In a Big Country" fairly often in the wild. ymmv
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 November 2023 10:39 (five months ago) link
And I hear "Everything She Wants" on A/C radio, not "eighties radio" fwiw
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 November 2023 10:40 (five months ago) link
oh yeah, i heard glenn frey's true love (obscure and forgotten imo) out and about at a speedway gas station not too long ago, and they played everything she wants during a previous visit. that's why i invoked that particular song: it occurred to me i hadn't heard it on the one media outlet that specifically should be playing that sort of thing on the regular. when your gas station's music playlist is better curated than the radio format that has that thing in its name then what kind of world are we living in.
― slugbuggy, Friday, 24 November 2023 10:54 (five months ago) link
now see "True Love" is obscure -- and dreadful
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 November 2023 10:55 (five months ago) link
I'll say this: It's the only song by Big Country that isn't obscure in the U.S.
― pplains, Friday, 24 November 2023 15:32 (five months ago) link
I faintly recall a follow-up, but I can't remember what it was called without googling.
― pplains, Friday, 24 November 2023 15:33 (five months ago) link
x-post lol, exactly
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 24 November 2023 15:40 (five months ago) link
I can imagine a dumb late in the show SNL sketch about "The Very Best of Big Country": "In A Big Country", "In A Small Country", "The Commonwealth I Am In" etc.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 November 2023 15:45 (five months ago) link
Spice Girls: "Spice Up Your Life" & Lakeside: "Fantastic Voyage" at Torchy's Tacos
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 November 2023 04:01 (five months ago) link
vc corporate era torchys here has just fucked their playlist to shit here. nuthin gold can stay
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Saturday, 25 November 2023 04:38 (five months ago) link
That's what happened with Freebirds, which is now all uptempo Top 40 through the ages and/or contemporary EDM.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 November 2023 06:01 (five months ago) link
The only time I’ve heard “big country” since the 80s in the US in the wild was when a bartender from the UK put in on during his shift
― calstars, Saturday, 25 November 2023 16:28 (five months ago) link